To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best The Anglo-Welsh poet-painter David Jones, is that rare animal, an artist who was immensely gifted in more than one medi­um. He was a small and modest man, a chain smoker, agoraphobic, a recluse who in his latter years hardly ever left his little room in Harrow, piled high with books, paintings, sketches, manuscripts. Yet his first long poem, In Parenthesis, was described by T.S. Eliot as a work of genius, and his second, The Anathemata, by W. H Auden as “very probably the best long poem written in English this [twentieth] century”. He is honoured in the pantheon of First World War poet